How did the role of prisons change?
- Created by: Himee Senanayake
- Created on: 03-06-18 20:10
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- How did the role of prisons change?
- Why did the use of prisons increase?
- the use of the Bloody Code decreased
- concerns about transportation
- Views of prisons
- an opportunity to change or rehabilitate a person who had committed a crime.
- a prison term should deter others from crime
- sentences should involve hard work to pay society back.
- prison made society safer by separating the criminals from everyone else
- Hard labour
- treadwheel
- 8 hours a day with only 5 minute breaks every 10 minutes
- had separate booths - no communication
- wheels generate water
- treadwheel
- John Howard
- outraged by the conditions in Bedfordshire gaol
- concerned that some prisons were detained
- Tours other prisons looking for goo examples to remodel the goal
- believes criminals will change their ways if given a reasonable standard of living
- made visits to individual gaolers around the county to persuade them to improve their policies
- Elizabeth Fry
- Teaches sewing and leads Bible classes
- Aged 18, starts doing charity work
- visits Newgate and sees how its overcrowded
- organises prison education for women and children
- Helps female wardens
- helps set up association for the Reformation of Female Prisoners
- Why did the use of prisons increase?
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